Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-15
LOCAL BREyITIES.


lice yesterday.
The advertised list of delinquent taxes
of Yolo county this winter amounts to but
81 200.
P.J. Williams is said to have sold his
fine Nutwood stallion Goldnut to parties in
Los Angeles.
Paul Shirley has paid into the State
Treasury Sl,S66 l6, profits from the jute
factory at San Quentin.
The Sacramento river at noon yesterday
had risen to IS feet 6 inches, but it soon
began to fall, and at 3 o'clock had receded
to Is feet inches.
The annual meeting of the Sacramento
Sunday School Association, which was an
nounced for this evening, has been post
poned for two weeks.
Owing to the unpleasant weather the
Valentine festival that was to have been
given at the A. NJ. E. Church last evening
was postponed for week.
Governor Bartlett has designated Hon. J.
G. Somerton, of San Joaquin county, to
hold Court in Amador III the place of G. B.
Armstrong, who is disqualified.
The following Notaries Public have been
appointed by the Governor: ]. w. Cook,
San Jose E. Hulorse, San Bernardino; G.
w. Coffin, Santa Barbara; Samuel Rutland,
Woodland.
A burglar is operating at Stockton in the
| same wholesale manner that one worked
Sacramento few weeks ago, and the police
| believe it is the same individual that did
the work here.
| Mrs. Helena Babcock, former resident
of Sacramento, being an adopted daughter
of the late General A. RedIngton, died at
Monterey last Saturday, after an illness of
several months.
| The San Francisco papers now say that
George Van Haltren, who has signed with
the Pittsburg Baseball Club for the ensuing
season, is only TO receive 81 400, instead of
$1,000, as at first reported.
H. Gay, one of the men sent up from
| this city on Sunday to shovel snow on the
mountain, fell of the train near Alta that
evening" and had his head and face badly
cut He is being cared for at Alta.
Chief of Police Dillman has received q
letter from Nellie Martin, of No. I, North
Broadway, Yonkers, n. Y, asking for in
formation concerning her brother, a young
man named John Pagan, supposed to be,
Or to have recently been, in Sacramento.
The Fish Commissioners steamer Gov
ernor Stoneman, which has been lying on
this side of the river, just below the bridge,
got up steam yesterday and went over to q
safer position on the Yolo shore, where
she will not be in the way of the drift
coming down stream.
The heavy fall of snow in the mountains
will probably have the effect of driving
game down into the foothills, and pot
hunters and hide-gatherers will doubtless
make slaughter of deer in many locali-
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pigeons were driven down into the valleys,
as they were several years ago.
st. Valentines day received very little
attention in Sacramento though the sta
TONERS made fine display of their stock,
the new valentines being very attractive.
But the observance of the day is dying out,
and besides such weather as we have been
having lately is calculated to knock all the
romance and nonsense out of people.
Curtis Bros. received yesterday nearly
| 1000 live Arizona quail, and the exhibition
of them at their place of business attracted
much attention. A number of gentlemen
have expressed their intention of getting
some of the birds and PLANTING" them on
their ranches. They are not SIS wild as the
California quail, become domestica.ed
sooner, and can be made pets of easier
G.. w. Carey, OF this city, and Fred.
Townsend, of Mendocino county. partner
of Z. s. Carey, have been in San Francisco
for few days waiting 10 take the steamer
for Honolulu. The departure of the steamer
was postponed from Saturday until Mon
day, as yesterdays train from the East was
bringing the Australian mail. As the train
did not come, being snow bound, the
steamer has probably been held for another
day.
Fong All Wing, who stabbed Yet Chung
Sunday night, on l street, has not been
heard from since. The friends of the
wounded man do not appear to be very
anxious about the matter, and have not
sworn out a warrant for the arrest of All
Wing. One of them was asked yesterday
as to Yet Chung's injury, and he replied to
the effect that he thought the case serious
that the wound was deep, and, as it did not
bleed externally, it must be bleeding inter-
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